﻿526 
  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  Dr. 
  C 
  IT. 
  Pcabody 
  liad 
  a 
  child 
  patient 
  die 
  of 
  tubercular 
  men- 
  

   ingnti.s 
  three 
  months 
  after 
  the 
  family 
  cow 
  haxi 
  been 
  killed 
  for 
  gen- 
  

   eralized 
  tuberculosis. 
  There 
  had 
  been 
  previously 
  no 
  tuberculosis 
  

   in 
  the 
  family 
  (Ernst, 
  Infectiousness 
  of 
  Milk). 
  

  

  A. 
  11. 
  Kose 
  of 
  Littleton, 
  Mass., 
  gives 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  child 
  which 
  

   was 
  fed 
  for 
  three 
  years 
  on 
  the 
  milk 
  of 
  a 
  tuberculous 
  cow 
  and 
  died 
  

   with 
  abdominal 
  tubci'culosis 
  (Ernst). 
  

  

  Gordon 
  of 
  Quincy, 
  ]\lass., 
  records 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  ten-months-old 
  

   child 
  of 
  healthy 
  parents 
  and 
  ancestrs' 
  which 
  Ivad 
  been 
  fed 
  on 
  the 
  

   milk 
  of 
  a 
  cow 
  Avith 
  advanced 
  tuberculosis, 
  and 
  which 
  died 
  after 
  

   a 
  few 
  weeks 
  with 
  acute 
  tuberculosis 
  (Ernst). 
  

  

  Gage 
  of 
  Lowell, 
  Mass., 
  had 
  an 
  infant 
  patient 
  of 
  healthy 
  parents 
  

   and 
  surroundings, 
  l)ut 
  which 
  subsisted 
  exclusively 
  on 
  a 
  cow's 
  milk 
  

   which 
  contained 
  bacilli 
  and 
  which 
  infected 
  guinea-pig"S. 
  Tbe 
  child 
  

   died 
  of 
  tubercular 
  meningitis. 
  A 
  second 
  child 
  fed 
  tire 
  same 
  milk 
  

   suffered 
  in 
  a 
  similar 
  way 
  (Ernst). 
  

  

  Andersen 
  of 
  Seeland, 
  reports 
  tlve 
  death 
  from 
  tuberculosis 
  of 
  a 
  

   six-months-old 
  child 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  fed 
  on 
  the 
  milk 
  of 
  a 
  cow 
  hav- 
  

   ing 
  tuberculosis 
  of 
  the 
  udder. 
  The 
  mother 
  developed 
  symptoms 
  of 
  

   tuberculosis 
  after 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  the 
  child. 
  ^' 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Go'Sse 
  of 
  Geneva, 
  Switzerland, 
  spent 
  his 
  Sundays 
  with 
  his 
  

   family 
  on 
  an 
  estate 
  in 
  the 
  hills, 
  and 
  his 
  daughter, 
  aged 
  17 
  years, 
  

   took 
  great 
  pleasure 
  in 
  drinking 
  milk 
  warm 
  fi-oni 
  the 
  cows. 
  Early 
  

   in 
  1893 
  she 
  sickened 
  AA-ith 
  an 
  obscure 
  illness, 
  and 
  after 
  ten 
  months 
  

   died, 
  revealing 
  at 
  the 
  necropsy 
  intestinal 
  and 
  mesenteric 
  tubercu- 
  

   losis. 
  The 
  five 
  cows 
  on 
  the 
  estate 
  were 
  tested 
  with 
  tuberculin; 
  four 
  

   reacted, 
  and 
  were 
  killed; 
  two 
  slvowed 
  tuberculous 
  udders 
  (Xocard). 
  

  

  Dr. 
  H. 
  M. 
  Pond 
  reports 
  four 
  cases 
  of 
  tuberculosis 
  in 
  one 
  family, 
  

   three 
  of 
  them 
  fatal. 
  The 
  cows 
  supplying 
  the 
  family 
  with 
  milk 
  

   were 
  tuberculous.^® 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Faust, 
  veterinarian, 
  of 
  Poughkeepsie, 
  records 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  a 
  

   family 
  on 
  Long 
  Island 
  that 
  lost 
  from 
  tuberculosis 
  139 
  cows. 
  A 
  

  

  17 
  Hatch 
  Experiment 
  Station, 
  Massachusetts 
  Agricultural 
  College, 
  Bulletin 
  

   No. 
  3. 
  

  

  18 
  Pacific 
  Medical 
  and 
  Surgical 
  Journal, 
  1888. 
  

  

  